The statement explained Kelly will have a chemotherapy treatment next week, then again in three weeks and once more in six weeks. At the same time, he will receive daily radiation treatments at the North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute's Center for Advanced Medicine.

"At the conclusion of chemotherapy and radiation," Constantino said in the Lenox Hill statement, "we will wait two to three months to determine the status of his cancer before deciding if surgery will be necessary."

The statement also noted Kelly hasn't had chemo or radiation therapies before and suggested that portends a positive impact on his cancer.

"As I have stated previously, Jim Kelly’s condition remains very treatable and potentially curable," Constantino said. "Even if chemotherapy and radiation are not successful in eradicating the cancer, his skull-base tumor remains operable."

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I will pray to Father Baker for your full recovery. Father Baker would have loved you.I feel a connection to you and Father Baker.I believe he will bless you with a clean bill of health. Good Luck Jim, our Buffalo quarterback forever.

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Vic Carucci returned to The Buffalo News as a Bills beat reporter in September. Carucci covered the Bills for 17 years before joining NFL.com as a columnist in 1999. Prior to rejoining The News, he spent three years as a senior editor for the Cleveland Browns.

Tim Graham returned to The Buffalo News in 2011 after covering the NFL for three years at ESPN and for one year at the Palm Beach Post. Before that, the Cleveland native spent seven seasons on the Buffalo Sabres beat for The News and was president of the Boxing Writers Association of America.

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